Although their rental car, a Hyundai Sonata, ended up wedged beneath a tanker truck and they were transported to nearby PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, neither was seriously injured, said William Finn, public information officer with the Washington State Patrol.

Lee was driving the 2013 Hyundai south on I-5 in Kalama, Wash., at about 8 a.m. Sunday when the car hydroplaned on the rainy pavement. The car, which was in the left lane, struck the cement median, then rebounded into the center lane, troopers said. There, it ran into a Peterbuilt semi-truck driven by Steven Kawasaki of Buena Park, Calif., wedging itself under the truck's tank, which was empty.

Numerous fire trucks, ambulances and other first-responder vehicles arrived to help, and dramatic photographs show the car jammed under the truck. The car was totalled.

Lee and Anderson were taken to the hospital largely as a precaution and were found not to be seriously injured, Finn said. Lee was charged with improper lane travel.